Alleged Gunman In The Santa Barbara Shootings Had Ties To ‘Hunger Games’ Films

In the hours since news broke of the deadly Santa Barbara shootings, authorities and Internet sleuths have slowly started to piece together the f*cked up puzzle that was Elliot Rodger’s life. He was, obviously, a horrible person, but his life seemed like anything but — his Facebook is a flip-book of luxuries, with private Katy Perry concerts and first-class airplane seats. So, who was Elliot Rodger?

An attorney for filmmaker Peter Rodger confirmed Saturday that his 22-year-old son, Elliot Rodger, was involved in the mass shooting. The filmmaker is best known for his work on the first installment of the Hunger Games blockbuster series. (Via)

Deadline adds, “Rodger also is a documentary filmmaker — the cast of his 2009 film Oh My God included Hugh Jackman, director Baz Luhrmann, Bob Geldof, Seal, Ringo Starr, David Copperfield and others talking about God.” Rodger’s YouTube history makes no mention of God, or religion at all, but it does tell the story of an angry, young, ugh, men’s right activist.

The Men’s Rights Movement as they call themselves is a nebulous group of pickup artists and misogynists who’ve found each other on line, and are attempting to create a movement based around their hatred, disdain, and fear of women.

We know for a fact that Rodgers was influenced by this movement, as he is subscribed to multiple “pick up artist” or “mens rights” channels on YouTube. They include: “The Player Supreme Show,” which rails against the feminization of men and talks about how to pick up women [and] “RSDfreetour,” a series of self-help seminars run by RSD Nation, a “pick up artist” site. (Via)

here’s the weird thing. 7 kids in santa barbara get shot to death and it’s headline news across the world. 70 black people get shot to death in detroit and chicago just last weekend and no one gives a fuck. THAT’S pretty fuckin weird bro.

@Michael Valentine Smith It’s not that weird.
1. Did one person shoot 70 people in Chicago last weekend?
2. Most of the Chicago shootings are gang related and no one gives a shit when gangbangers shoot each other, just like in North STL closer to me.

Black on Black crime is not reported because:
1. It’s unfortunately the norm not sensational like a mass shooting.
2. News outlets are uncomfortable on reporting on these crimes which gives the impression of a “can’t judge” stance.

Michael, if you are implying that the shootings in Detroit and Chicago aren’t getting press because the victims are black, I would counter that if the shooters were white, there would be worldwide attention ala Treyvon Martin.
Mass shootings usually get tons of attention because of the sensational aspects of the story. You mix mass casualties and college students or schoolkids and you have a story that tugs at hearts.

want to know why there are 300 million firearms in private circulation in the united states? do some research on cointelpro, then get back to me. take a look at the numbers, see who they’re affecting most, ask yourself why we can’t purchase lawn darts because they were deemed too dangerous, but firearms can be picked up at your local walmart. the reason isn’t the 2nd amendment. the reason is race.

so does heroin and cocaine. but we don’t allow the sales of those because a) they’re dangerous b) they tear apart the social fabric . didn’t stop the fbi from flooding the black communities with both in the 1960’s and 1970’s to subdue black nationalism. unregulated firearms are decimating the african american community, and that is precisely why they are allowed to be unregulated.

GODDAMN IT YOU SHEEPLE, IT’S COINTEL FALSE FLAG BLACKOPS / PSYOPS AS DICTATED BY THE NWO ILLUMINATI HYDRYA TRIAD OF BANKSTER POWER AND I’M NOT SURE WHERE CHEMTRAILS FIT IN BUT FOR FUCK SAKE THEY’RE IN THERE SOMEWHERE TOO. ALSO LIZARD PEOPLE.

Mikey, you need to stop listening to Spike Lee. Let me guess, next you are going ko say that the levees were blown up to kill black people? And the Twin Towers were brought down by Jews and the Fed?
How do you find time to post your truths when you muat spend all day hating on America……and white people?

Actually no. Cocaine and heroin make far less money. Also their lobbies were far weaker then the gun industry
Sure. Some of the politician may have this agenda but I think most are simply in it for the money

Besides the men’s rights stuff he seems to be another liberal/socialist mass shooter. Why blame the Tea Party when almost every one of the shooters are Obama voters and/or socialists?
I don’t think any party should be blamed. The blame almost always lies with mental disorders, but in this case it seems like this kid’s disorder was being a world class pussy.

Adam Lanza, James Holmes, the shipyard shooter, Fort Hood shooter, and Jared Loughner all Obama supporters yet the moment when the shootings happen the Tea Party gets blamed. I’m not a huge fan of the Tea Party but when these mass shootings happen if a political group or philosophy is going to be blamed, it should be the one that is associated with the shooters.
Again, it’s mental disorder that really should be blamed.

If you don’t think the PUA movement completely objectifies women, and reduces them to just their beauty and the reproductive parts, then I’m pretty sure we can’t have a rational conversation about the subject.

There’s quite a bit of overlap between PUAs and MRAs. If pick-up artistry was just about helping the socially inept I wouldn’t have a problem with it. Some of it is about improving self-esteem.

If you spend enough time on the forums you’ll find a bizarre thought process that involves hating women while using all of one’s spare time trying to fuck them. The women who reject them are bitches while the ones who fall for their lines are sluts. Rejection breeds resentment.

To be a pick-up artist you’re expected to apply one formula to all women – which makes it easy to forget that they’re people and not a monolithic block of fuck holes. I think that’s where the overlap between PUA and misogyny begins.

Ever been to Return of Kings? Maybe that guy started off as a socially inept guy looking for pointers, but he resents women who have the audacity to get jobs and have sex before marriage. It’s really weird. That guy is the perfect example of PUA/MRA.

(I mean if you think PUAs do what they do because they respect and cherish women, then I guess everything else I wrote won’t make any sense to you.)

@TFBuckFutter: No, that is, in fact, what you said; that he was associated with the Pickup Artists Community and through them he learned misogyny. That’s a crock of shit – 180 degrees off of realty. He despised PUA’s as scam artists who took advantage of people like him; his hatred of women stems from his own failures in romance in comparison to expectations (when you’ve got as many advantages in life that this guy has it actually is mind-boggling to think he’s incel), coupled with his own well-established psychological problems.

“But muh Jizzebel article!?” Never let a good crisis go to waste, huh? Fuck them, and fuck you, this shit is beyond grotesque at this point, using every tragedy as an opportunity to advance your own political goals and get public opinion turned against people you don’t like.

Actually, according to this quick research I did, it seems that forum is more about hating the people who profited off those who couldn’t succeed at the system.

“We browsed the forums for a few hours and failed to find one user who wondered whether women are unfairly targeted (as well as stereotyped, pigeonholed, and marketed) by the seduction community. Nope! On their predominately male, heterosexual planet it’s the poor, gullible men who are the true victims, and the PuaHate forums are an outlet where they’re free to break down reasons why particular PUAs are the “ultimate scammers” who “hardly ever get laid and when they do it is with average to below average girls,” review boot camps, detail legal issues (Wah, I spent thousands of dollars on X product and I’m still not getting laid), and stalk the partners of famous “gurus.” And it’s the partners — and women in general — who are the villains to these outcasts.”